Dear Editor,
Prayer is a part of the city I live in, a very small city. The municipal council members and the mayor open each civic meeting with a prayer. The County Commission does this as well. The local church leaders—LDS, Catholic, Bible Study, Episcopalian, Lutheran and others take turns offering this invocation each week.
I believe it is especially appropriate, necessary and critical for many reasons. An acknowledgement to the creator—our creator—is fundamental to freedoms and democratic republic for it’s exist because they ARE inalienable. They come from God. Although enumerated in the “Bill of Rights” i.e., the first ten amendments. The rights do not come from government. These rights don’t come from the media. They don’t come from the citizens or various church denominations throughout the land. The inalienable rights come from God.
America, her Constitution(s), bother federal and state, are under attack by legions of dark forces and enemies within and from the outside the U.S. These evil influences (too many to name here) would surely have brought us down by now and still might do so, but for prayer. Our rogue supreme courts have eliminated the Ten Commandments from the courthouse walls, legislation from the bench has wrongly removed God from our schools, and they won’t even let us place a white cross near the highway where a patrolman or a motorist was killed. We must reverse this! Prayers at the beginning of civic meetings are an enormously good example of how local, county, state, and even the national government can ‘set the tone’, lead the way, and start proceedings in a positive manner. As was the first 100 years of “U.S.”.
Many of us have seen the painting by Arnold Frieburg who depicted General George Washington kneeling at the side of his saddle horse offering a prayer to God—the one and only God. What an indelible image! I’d like to see that painting on the wall of every government office, council room, and elected or appointed officials domain on the continent. Prayer, I’m wondering, if every success story, product, idea, or mission could ever succeed without it.
Just a thought to bear in mind as we celebrate our country’s Independence Day.
Don Dunbar
Brigham City
